But does it deserve an encore? 'Amadeus' returns to South Coast Rep

Antonio Salieri, relegated by posterity to the shadows as Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart’s journeyman contemporary, will always have Peter Shaffer’s “Amadeus” to augment his notoriety, if not his fame. 

Shaffer’s 1979 drama, which gave rise to Milos Forman’s 1984 Oscar-winning film, is a drama about the...